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Website Re-Vamp 2025

Website Re-Vamp 2025

Project overview

Goal: Make the OpenMRS site exciting, modern, and comprehensive for our key personas, including MoH/eHealth leaders.

The OpenMRS website redesign project aims to create a user-centred, accessible, highly functional and visually appealing website that effectively serves the diverse needs of our stakeholders including Businesses / Implementers, eHealth Leaders and Healthcare Staff. The project will involve Community research and engagement to inform the content design. We will utilise an information architecture design methodology that roots the organisation and access of content inline with stakeholder mental models and Community best practices. By restructuring the information architecture, we will aim to strengthen our ecosystem by lowering the barriers to becoming more engaged, collaborative and mature contributors to the OpenMRS Community.

Who: @Paul Adams and @Grace Potma . Technical advice from @Burke Mamlin . Content and IA input from Paul B, Jan F, Beryl K.

Phases & Tasks:

1. Prep-work phase:
Community Survey - @Paul Adams
IA Diagram, including results from user needs & perspectives survey - @Paul Adams : https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVKpBgwtM=/?share_link_id=503869082475 (original survey questions here:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TmSPuP1hrR59z2xXSRWGBYzclr_WgCrBHXoLtJuLgKE/edit?tab=t.0 )
Photo Assets folder for Paul: Grace: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/166nnYX-z7aYXZ4AwqUnGH4iRZjgdIj8m
Grab content from older website via wayback machine - @Grace Potma : Content in this Google doc
Set up test/working draft site with Wordpress hosting services - @Grace Potma : https://testopenmrs.wpcomstaging.com/
Install all needed Plugins and confirm must-haves with Burke - @Grace Potma : See Plugins table below
2. Design Site’s overall Style, IA, look & feel:
Pick Theme to start using - @Paul Adams
Design major components and major page layouts
Sign-off call with major stakeholders
First sign-off call: Feb 24, 2025. Feedback included: “If a country wants to implement OpenMRS, is the pathway clear for them?” - PB’s main concern
@Paul Adams share screenshots of main pages for Paul B & Jan F & Beryl & Grace to review
Visual Style Guide: defines the website’s colour palette, typography, graphic, photography and basic UI components to ensure a consistent and engaging user experience - @Paul Adams
3. Templating Phase in Wordpress:
Set up Pages templates for consistent re-use - @Paul Adams
Set up common must-have reuseable components for re-use - @Paul Adams
Phase 1: Main sub-hero blocks, key metrics bars
Phase 2 (Nice to have): Events template, accordions
4. Technical Port-over Phase:
(XL) Academy content port-over
(L) Check through all settings of plugins for consistency - @Grace Potma : See Plugins table below
(M) Mailchimp connected; Newsletter sign-up form set-up
(S) Payment services connected (PayPal, Stripe)
(XS) Test Map plugin
(XS) Test Translate plugin

Homepage draft as of Feb 24 2025

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Plugins and Integrations To-Do’s Tracker

Plugin

Installed?

Set up and settings matching previous?

Notes & Other requirements

Plugin

Installed?

Set up and settings matching previous?

Notes & Other requirements

Anti-Spam

Akismet

🔲 To-Do

 

MFA/2FA

Enabled

Set OpenMRS admin 2fa

 

Backup

✅ UpdraftPlus

🔲 To-Do

 

Disable comments

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🔲 To-Do

 

Editor GUI Tool

✅ Elementor

🔲 To-Do

 

Map Tool

✅ GeoMap

🔲 To-Do

🟠 Will need to connect pro GTranslate account for multi-lang/country SEO optimization

Translation

✅ GTranslate

🔲 To-Do

 

Course / Academy

✅ Tutor LMS & Tutor LMS Elementor Addons

🔲 To-Do

🔴 Need to find way to port-over existing course materials and students. Custom Import/Export plugin here.

Google Analytics connection

✅ Monster Insights

🔲 To-Do

🟠 Plugin but not activated. Let’s activate when site goes live. May end up needing GTM4WP - A Google Tag Manager (GTM) plugin for WordPress

Image Optimizer

✅

🔲 To-Do

 

Mailchimp Integration

 

🔲 To-Do

(For Newsletter setup)

Payment Services Integration

 

🔲 To-Do

For donation collection